Benjamin Golding

Benjamin Golding (7 September 1793 – 21 June 1863) was a British medical doctor and the founder of the West London Infirmary which later became the Charing Cross Hospital.

He enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1811, where he attended the lectures of Dr James Gregory, and in 1813 started as a medical student at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

[1] Golding began medical practice in 1815 at his house in Leicester Place, City of Westminster, which was open particularly to the poor.

It was at this time that he conceived the idea of a medical school being integral to a hospital, to ensure the needy were cared for in the present and future.

[3] In 1820, he published the Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, a topic he was devoted to for much of his life.